Cyberbullying: The Controversy Between Teenagers

Bullying has been a problem for decades and just seems to get worse as each day goes by. Bullying can have so many different meanings and be done in many different ways. Bullying was known as “give me your lunch money” or “hey four eyes,” but now it has mutated into much more serious matters. The bullying described before has now advanced into something much more serious and sometimes dangerous. This form of bullying is cyberbullying. Cyber bullying is one of the most common ways to bully between teenagers in this day in age. Back in the day bullying was done by writing notes, but has now advanced to computers and cellphones that are more capable of being used to secretly bully someone. There are so many social media apps where teens have the ability to view what their peers are doing, and can be easily accessed by a click or a swipe of a button or screen. A lot of personal information of others are easily available to most teens to view and criticize. That is why cyberbullying is such
Cyberbullying is also any harassment that occurs on the Internet. Threatening posts, name calling online, posting fake profiles on websites, and mean or cruel messages are all ways of cyberbullying. (Hardcastle). Cyberbullying can include making threats, sending slurs, and bashing the victim with “totem pole”. T- typing inappropriate words to the victim, O- ongoing harassment towards the victim, T- threatening the victim , E- exposing others, M- making others join in with the bullying, and “p.o.l.e”- picking on less educated. Cyberbullying is wrong and needs to be stopped. Cyberbullying is becoming even more of a problem as time goes on. Since technology is improving day by day, communication through mobile devices have grown rapidly in the past years. By this happening, people have more of an easier advantage to bully others